"Bet is an icon. The idea of bringing her back is talked about occasionally. As any Corrie viewer would say, she is up there in the pantheon of Corrie greats," he said.

"So it’s always tempting to bring her back."

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bet could be coming back to cause drama in the show's 60th anniversary later this year

The show's 60th anniversary is coming up this year and the soap is preparing shock moments for the landmark in December.

"We won’t be doing a live episode. It’s time to do something different. But it won’t be any less ambitious," Iain said.

"We are going to be telling the stories in a slightly different way. It’s important when you’re celebrating a milestone that you don’t purely look back at times past, but also find a way to renew and look to what the next 60 years might be like."

Iain's predecessor, Kate Oates, also teased Julie's return back in 2018 - so it appears there's a role in upcoming scripts for her.

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She was famed for her leopard-clad attire behind the bar of the Rovers